Democrats to blame for federal shutdown

“The Obamacare shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths” about the perpetrators responsible and the constitutionality of their actions, says Charles Krauthammer in The Washington Post. But the Democrats revised the Affordable Care Act after it became “settled law” and nixed re-opening parts of the government; rather than blaming tea party radicals for the impasse, blame liberals for stuffing “Obamacare down the throats of the GOP and the country,” he says.

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Sounds like the same tired arguments they used about Social Security, Medicare, equal rights etc. I just wish they could come up with some new excuses. For those who say there are glitches in the system, and therefore should scrap the whole system, please look at other big plans and how very, very rarely do things come together right the first time. If one were getting married and something went wrong at the church, (such as the power fails) should you scrap the entire thing. No, one would adjust and move on.

Typical wing-nut batch of lies and distortions. The affordable care act has not been “revised” in the sense that KrautDog’s claims. For example, the “employer mandate” has not been suspended in the manner claimed. What has happened is the fine on employers who don’t provide coverage will not be levied in most(but not all cases). There are always provisions in legislation like this to allow for changes in implementation if those changes are the rational thing to do.

Also, KrautDog complains about “stuffing…down the throats…”, but all legislation, and many executive actions, are “stuffing …down the throats…” of somebody. I’m sure Armed Robbers think laws against robbery are being stuffed down their throats, but that’s the way a Democracy works – majority rules.

Try as they will, the GOP propaganda machine…trainwreck, death panels, jammed down our throats…they can not make it stick. They’re terrified. People may actually like affordable care and ceilings on hospital costs and insurance. Right now, our exceptional country ranks somewhere down near Turkey and Greece in the quality of care. People are suffering. They use emergency rooms for doctors. They can’t get needed drugs. Affordable care was voted on and won, big. But the GOP still thinks they can kill the bill, even tho it is, thank God, now the law.

@gunga dan,
The federal Amber Alert web site is not down. In any case states and local governments actually run the Amber Alerts, not the feds. The usbg web site is a “static” web site and doesn’t really need maintenance on a day-to-day basis.

Never mind that at the time 80-90% of the people DID NOT want Obamacare enacted. Pelosi and dems used parlimentary tricks and bribes to get the necessary votes for approval. I for one am glad the repubs are finally getting a back bone and taking this on.

The revisions to the AHA that have been made to date were discussed and passed on their own merits. They were not attached to some other bill with the “accept this or else” provision. This current issue isn’t really about the merits of funding or defunding or delaying – if it were, then send a bill that specifically addresses those so they can be debated. This is about trying to stick a pet project onto a continuing resolution. Back in my day – those were called “pork barrel projects” or even “vote purchasing”. It isn’t an acceptable practice.

@gunga dan,
As I told you the feds don’t actually operate the Amber Alerts and the federal Amber Alert website is a static site that doesn’t really do much of anything other than provide a high level view of what the program does. This is basically all due to wing-nut news trash talk. The house republicans are about to basically cave because of threats by the few moderate republicans (about 20-30) to go independent and caucus with the democrats.